Lisa Murkowski

I strongly support women’s reproductive freedoms, including the right to abortion established by Roe and Casey.

I had to look on balance, because the people in my state are the ones that I put first.

Do I like this bill? No.

I struggled mightily with the impact on the most vulnerable in this country when you look to Medicaid and SNAP.

You’re roadkill in the middle.

You can either say, ‘I don’t like it,’ and not try to help my state, or you can roll up your sleeves.

It’s offensive to claim that federal dollars being sent to a state are considered a bailout.

Kill it and it’s gone.

My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.

Do I like this bill? No. Because I tried to take care of Alaska’s interest.

My response is I have an obligation to the people of the state of Alaska. And I live up to that every single day.

I don’t actually want the version of the bill I voted for to become law, and I hope that the House undoes some of the damage in the bill that I and my fellow senators did.

I have an obligation to the people of the state of Alaska, and I live up to that every single day.

My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.

Do I like this bill? No. In many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill.

The decision process, Murkowski told reporters after the vote, had been “agonizing,” and she “struggled mightily with the impact on the most vulnerable in this country, when you look to Medicaid and SNAP.”

There is a tax impact coming forward. That’s gonna hurt the people in my state.

My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.

And so when, when people suggest that federal dollars go to one of our 50 states in a quote, bailout, I find that offensive.

I have an obligation to the people of the state of Alaska, and I live up to that every single day.

I had to look on balance. We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination.

When I saw the direction that this is going, you can either say, ‘I don’t like it,’ and not try to help my state, or you can roll up your sleeves, and do so.

When people suggest that federal dollars go to one of our fifty states in a quote, ‘bailout,’ I find that offensive. I advocated for my state’s interests.

Did we make some changes in the SNAP provisions that will allow for a delay, that will allow for greater flexibility to the state? Absolutely.

Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska's interests.